Keeping up with film releases can sometimes feel like the entertainment selection on a long-haul flight. Every movie starts to blur

Following 2014's acclaimed Love Is Strange, Little Men is another very New York story with real estate concerns from director-writer Ira Sachs.

These doco directors brought clarity, perspective and humanity with The 5th Eye, which covers New Zealand's role in the Five Eyes spy alliance.

Arrival does have moments of story daftness, however, Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific.

The Light Between Oceans, directed by Ryan Gosling fanboy Derek Cianfrance (Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine) is the latest

REVIEW: Mel Gibson will be hoping that Hacksaw Ridge can reset the bones of a broken career.

The predictability of an unhappy resolution headed the tears off - but the redemptive ending knocked me. I was still sobbing as I left the cinema.

Affleck, autism and accounting combine for enjoyable if ropy action movie.

Oh good. Another rich prick gets a cape and a suit. Wait, come back. This isn't that sort of superhero movie.

It's getting harder and harder to do new things with horror.

As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses - it sure can't keep up with those Smiths.

If Shideh wasn't already feeling demonised enough. She's a liberal-minded woman living in Tehran during the final years of the 1980s Iraq-Iran war.

The second Jack Reacher film fails to measure up to just about everything.

Ouija: Origin of Evil is a familiar story but Flanagan throws in just enough creepy and witty twists to keep you interested in how it turns out.

For all its classy production values, Café Society isn't as invigorating as Woody Allen's top-notch work can be.

As the 2014 Oscar-nominated anthology Wild Tales showed, Argentinean cinema does like its black comedies.

It's ten years since Tom Hanks first played the dull but exceedingly well-read Robert Langdon in The Da Vinci Code, and seven since he did another lap of art-history orienteering in Angels and Demons.

A whodunit story makes an absorbing thriller on page, but less so on screen, even if it also delivers a compelling title character.

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.

While you're unlikely to include Bridget Jones's Baby on your 'best of' list, it's certainly a fun Friday night film that will put a smile on your face.

Just when it seems the year in movies has already reached peak kid-in-the-wilderness, along comes Captain Fantastic.

It may be a rather perplexing premise, but somehow the chaotic gags and sharp script translates into a fun, sweet story about family and belonging.

Bridget Jones is back with a third instalment to the movie franchise with Bridget Jones' Baby. Joanna Hunkin and Laura McGoldrick went along to see if it could live up to the hype.

There's some remarkable live footage within Eight Days a Week, but it doesn't add much to Beatles lore, other than offering a toe-tapping two hours.

Perfectly good fun for younger kids, but for a more discerning audience (the paying parent) it's an adventure you've likely been on before.

The Rehearsal retains the wit, candor, realism and heightened drama of the novel, all the while having e a relaxed approach to dialogue.

Pete's Dragon is a breath of fresh air for kids who've grown up on with animations and for parents who remember Spielberg's 'old school' classics.

I don't how to break this news to you, but I think Tom Hanks might be cursed when it comes to air travel. We've seen him survive a

Our favourite loveable ditz is back, and this time she's got herself up the duff and people are loving it.